The early months of the year provide an opportunity to slow down a bit, and to engage again in solo pursuits, such as Trey's first appearance at the annual TibetHouse benefit at Carnegie Hall in February. The intermittantly ubiquitous Pork Tornado appears in New England and southwards in April, and Page and Trey appear with Phil Lesh and other friends at the Warfield. In May, the Trey Anastasio Acoustic and Electric band tours in the midwest and northeast. Practice time is scheduled for late June in preparation for Phish's summer tour which begins on the last day of the month. After passing through the south (with the fourth of July in Atlanta),the tour heads up the east coast, pausing in Volney, New York for the Oswego Airport Campout, then proceeds to Deer Creek by the end of the month. From there, the band and crew head directly to Japan for the Fuji Rock Festival. August passes by quickly, and by the second week in September, the fall tour is commencing on the west coast, followed by a swing to the south then up through the midwest to wrap up the first leg in New York (Nassau and Albany). Following a break in November, the tour resumes in the northeast for the first half of December. On the 30th and 31st, the band and audience celebrate New Year's 1999-2000 at the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation in southern Florida (the largest paid concert event in the world that night) with an experience that stretches uninterrupted from midnight until dawn.